Alan Cheslow

Because of 9/11 the government restricted our freedom from unreasonable searches, our right to a speedy and public trial, our freedom of association, our right to legal representation, our freedom of speech, and our right to liberty.

Because of the economic collapse the government will further restrict the free market and our economic freedoms.

I predict that next the Internet will be either the target or a major component of a national catastrophe, resulting in new government regulations that severely restrict our access to information on the Internet.

I hope I’m wrong.

From the introduction to “The Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Controlled Slave” by Cisco Wheeler and Fritz Springmeier:

WARNING, READ THIS FIRST BEFORE READING THE BOOK.

IF THERE IS ANY CHANCE you the reader have had mind-control done to you, you must consider the following book to be DANGEROUS. If you are consulting a therapist for DID (also known as MPD), it is recommended that you consult your therapist before reading this book. The complications that could result for those under mind control learning the truth–could be fatal. The co-authors take no responsibility for those who read or misuse this information.

Still wish to learn the secrets? Then read on here.

Taser, iRobot team up to arm robots - Yahoo! News
By adding Tasers to robots it already makes for the military, iRobot Corp. says it hopes to give soldiers and law enforcement a defensive, non-lethal tool.

But some observers fear such developments could ultimately lead to robots capable of deciding on their own when to shoot and kill.

New software can identify you from your online habits - tech - 16 May 2007 - New Scientist Tech
Microsoft is developing software that could accurately guess your name, age, gender and potentially even your location, by analyzing telltale patterns in your web browsing history.

Boing Boing: UK police to using hovering spy drone to record unruly behavior

From FRONTLINE:

“In the broad reach of NSA eavesdropping, the massive FBI data sweep in Las Vegas, access to records gathered by private database companies that allows government agencies to avoid the limitations provided by the Privacy Act, and nearly 200 other government data-mining programs identified by the Government Accounting Office, experienced national security officials and government attorneys see a troubling and potentially dangerous collision between the strategy of pre-emption and the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable search and seizure.”

View the full program online.

The Bush administration is urging Congress to pass a law that would halt dozens of lawsuits charging phone companies with invading ordinary citizens’ privacy through a post-Sept. 11 warrantless surveillance program.

The measure is part of a legislative package drafted by the Justice Department to relax provisions in the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that restrict the administration’s ability to intercept electronic communications in the United States. If passed, the proposed changes would forestall efforts to compel disclosure of the program’s details through Congress or the court system.

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In a News.com editorial published today, security experts Bruce Schneier and Richard Forno lay out what’s wrong with REAL ID:

“As currently proposed, Real ID will fail for several reasons. From a technical and implementation perspective, there are serious questions about its operational abilities both to protect citizen information and resist attempts at circumvention by adversaries. Financially, the initial unfunded $11 billion cost, forced onto the states by the federal government, is excessive. And from a sociological perspective, Real ID will increase the potential for expanded personal surveillance and lay the foundation for a new form of class segregation in the name of protecting the homeland.”"It’s time to rethink some of the security decisions made during the emotional aftermath of 9/11 and determine whether they’re still a good idea for homeland security and America. After all, if Real ID was such a well-conceived plan, Maine and 22 other states wouldn’t be challenging it in their legislatures or rejecting the Real ID concept for any number of reasons. But they are.”

In order to “cut congestion”, the British government is planning a widespread surveillance system consisting of static cameras to capture license plate details, electronic tags in vehicles that would be read by roadside monitoring stations and global positioning system satellites to read on-board transponders, despite protests by 1.8 million petitions against the proposal.

Link.

Also found thru BoingBoing:

“If you look at history, you can see that there is essentially a blueprint for turning an open society into a dictatorship. That blueprint has been used again and again in more and less bloody, more and less terrifying ways. But it is always effective. It is very difficult and arduous to create and sustain a democracy - but history shows that closing one down is much simpler. You simply have to be willing to take the 10 steps.

As difficult as this is to contemplate, it is clear, if you are willing to look, that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated today in the United States by the Bush administration.”

Full article here.